A Week of Firsts

This was my first week of work, and my first time to leave Sydney with babysitters for pretty much the entire day. Thankfully, it was a success! My friends Becky and Jenny are watching Sydney, and I was so relieved to hear them say she was doing fine when I called during my lunch breaks and on my drives home. As for the work end of things, I have a lot on my plate. I feel like I should be doing therapy, but it seems like there's SO much to do (i.e. make a schedule, familiarize myself with IEPs, organize my room, go through materials, etc.) before I can actually do anything meaningful. But I guess I should be patient with myself since I've really only been there for 2 days.

Another first for this week: Sydney's first baseball game. We bought cheap tickets for Friday's Indians vs. Orioles game from the dental school. It was the perfect weather for an evening game.

When we first sat down, Sydney just clapped and clapped while she looked around at all of the bright lights. It was really cute to see her along with the rest of the crowd when something good happened.

Lookin' cute on Daddy's lap.

Trying to get her to wear Spencer's hat... it didn't last long.

She just hung out like this in my lap for about five innings and kept me nice and warm.

My sweet little family :)

Spencer, Chuck, and Braden were distracted by these Bean Boozled jelly beans that our neighbor gave to us. They're like Berti Bott's Every Flavored Beans in Harry Potter, so the little blue bean your were about to eat could be raspberry flavored or toothpaste flavored. The best reactions came after they ate vomit and moldy cheese. Ha!

The Indians came out with a win, ending their 12 game losing streak. Overall, it was a great end to a crazy week!

What A Day

I got a job today (3 days a week, starts next Tuesday).

Then I came home and cried for about an hour as I thought about leaving my baby with someone else for 20 hours a week. I'm gonna miss having that Tiny around 24/7.

Spencer tells me I need her more than she needs me. I know it's true, but it's still hard.

Blasted CFY.

10 Months

My sweet little girl.

This face cracks me up, so I try to encourage this behavior as much as possible. It has taken me weeks to finally capture it on camera. That little trill she did with her voice is a common occurrence too, especially when she sees something she really wants (usually food). Sydney is pulling herself up to standing and starting to cruise a little bit on furniture, but when we hold her hands and try to get her to walk, she either starts jumping or sits down. She will now go to Spencer willingly when he holds out his hands, and she usually follows him around the house when he first gets home from school.

She doesn't like her car seat, and frequently arches her back when she's buckled in. I'm looking forward to the day when she can use a forward facing one, although it will probably be a while since she's such a light weight. She's very chatty, and frequently has "conversations" with people. She's getting pretty good at turn taking and using the intonation of normal speech. She finally cut her top right central incisor. She has been sleeping really well, typically going to bed around 8:30pm and waking up around 7:30am.

While running errands over the last few days, I've had a handful of people come up to me to tell me how beautiful she is. I know I'm a biased Mom, but I agree. We sure love her sweet face.